An explosive investigation into how the United States of America built one of the largest illicit offshore finance systems in the world. For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn't been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditional financial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most also happens…mehr
An explosive investigation into how the United States of America built one of the largest illicit offshore finance systems in the world. For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn't been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditional financial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most also happens to be the one that still claims to be the moral leader of the free world, and the one that claims to be leading the fight against the crooked and the corrupt: the United States of America. American Kleptocracy examines just how the United States' implosion into a centre of global offshoring took place: how states such as Delaware and Nevada perfected the art of the anonymous shell company; how post-9/11 reformers watched their success usher in a new flood of illicit finance directly into the U.S.; how African despots and post-Soviet oligarchs came to dominate American coastlines, American industries, and entire cities and small towns across the American Midwest; how Nazi-era lobbyists birthed an entire industry of spin-men whitewashing transnational crooks and despots, and how dirty money has now begun infiltrating America's universities, think tanks, and cultural centres; and how those on the frontline are trying to restore America's legacy of anti-corruption leadership - and finally end this reign of American kleptocracy. It also looks at how Trump's presidency accelerated all of the trends already on hand - and how the Biden administration can, and should, act on this tawdry inheritance.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Casey Michel is a journalist whose writings on offshoring, kleptocracy, and financial secrecy have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Vox, The New Republic, and POLITICO Magazine, among others. He is an Adjunct Fellow with the Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative, and has contributed research pertaining to offshoring, illicit finance, and foreign interference to the German Marshall Fund, the Human Rights Foundation, and others.
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Prologue: "Too Big to See" Part I: Stationary Bandits 1. The Sole Miracle 2. Why Not Do as the Americans Do? 3. Control Everything, Own Nothing 4. Neck Deep 5. Slap in the Face Part II: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous 6. Scooping Caviar with a Shovel 7. Mensa-Certified Genius 8. Fish Physician 9. United States vs. Thriller Jacket Part III: American Warlords 10. Not a Gambino 11. The Wild West 12. A Gaping Hole 13. Fucking Cursed Part IV: United States of Anonymity 14. Gelatinous Madman 15. Corruption in the Flesh 16. Open Season 17. American Kleptocracies
Prologue: "Too Big to See" Part I: Stationary Bandits 1. The Sole Miracle 2. Why Not Do as the Americans Do? 3. Control Everything, Own Nothing 4. Neck Deep 5. Slap in the Face Part II: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous 6. Scooping Caviar with a Shovel 7. Mensa-Certified Genius 8. Fish Physician 9. United States vs. Thriller Jacket Part III: American Warlords 10. Not a Gambino 11. The Wild West 12. A Gaping Hole 13. Fucking Cursed Part IV: United States of Anonymity 14. Gelatinous Madman 15. Corruption in the Flesh 16. Open Season 17. American Kleptocracies
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